Norte, the End of History

Norte, the End of History (Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan, 2014) is a Filipino crime drama from Lav Diaz you can watch online on iFILM — a hypnotic film that runs past four hours.

A bitter law student, convinced that conscience is for lesser men, carries out a double murder. Another man takes the fall: a gentle family breadwinner handed a brutal sentence for a crime he never committed. While the innocent man settles into prison and his wife wanders the countryside with their children, looking for some form of grace, the real killer drifts free and slowly rots from the inside.

Diaz loosely transplants Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment to the modern Philippines, holding shots long enough to let time pass at something close to real speed. It premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard lineup. This is cinema that asks for patience and pays it back in full — for viewers who want to live inside a frame rather than swallow a plot. Stream Norte, the End of History (2014) online on iFILM.